"Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair)" (vicarious-chair)
03/24/2016 at 17:23 • Filed to: CTS, cadillac, CTSV, Vsport, GM
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"Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair)" (vicarious-chair)
03/24/2016 at 17:23 • Filed to: CTS, cadillac, CTSV, Vsport, GM | 1
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I made a quick post a while back in regards to the Vsport CTS I was able to take home for some 28 hours. I never followed it up, mostly because everyone has already praised for everything... and dislikes the CUE system. This is basically general knowledge at this point. What I haven’t read about is how this car turns you from a bored driver into one who feels like they have super-powers.
I put maybe 8-1ohrs worth of driving into the car’s engine-run clock. I enjoyed every minute of it. I didn’t have it long enough to get angry at CUE, or even play with that much. I did admire the relatively low belt-line, generous green house, and solid interior space. Compared to, say, a Chrysler 300, its a much easier vehicle to see out of and control for that reason.
I was able to drive it with many personas. I tried in touring mode, as the chauffeur, sport(auto) as the guy who’s running late for work, and track(auto, but mostly w/paddles) as the lunatic who thinks road safety means doing whatever he pleases, as long as my caution lights are blinking. It feels like a properly different machine in each mode.
Hit the switch to touring, and it feels like the nicest, quietest machine just south of 100k for any mostly-paved road. It so generously soaked up railroad crossings, crappy side streets and potholes as if it was giving its life for me. Its the best-of-both-worlds type of ride a lot of people try to achieve in a lux/sport/trackable car. Sport had me a bit confused, at first. It still kinda tries to upshift faster than I like, even with the accelerator depressed, but I’ve come to the conclusion that its done this way to slow assholes down and save them a gallon per tank.
Track in automatic is stupid. Track in manual-shift is amazing. Full-boost, open exhaust, rapid shifts, engine-noise pumped into the cabin. Having all of that power at your toes and finger tips is something of a dream, to me. I couldn’t help but start to laugh by the end of 2nd gear, WOT. The Vsport carries more than enough power under the hood to make me wonder what the CTS-V(V8) is there for (and then, at second thought, how much better it could be). I know in the title I wrote the Car makes the Man, but I really believe that this car turns you into something of a hero. I felt heroic driving it on open expressways. Its probably not the correct word, but the term and the feeling kept popping into my head.
And then, I filled 4 gallons of gas, and brought it back so that a series of people for the next year or so can abuse and ruin it, until we resell it through enterprise car sales. Such a sad and beautiful thing.
P.S. The car is almost strictly a 4-seater. That middle seat in the back is tiny, and the drive shaft-well* takes up so much interior space, its almost unusable.